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do chemicals work in buckets

thinking about me 3 kids and us two adults and occasional extras

do chemicals work in buckets with lids??

i would empty it daily like every morning so are chemical un-neccessary expensine

Oh not this pile of poop again!!!   

Chemicals will work in buckets with lids just as well as buckets without lids.  It's as effective to chuck some disinfectant in though.

some off us are new too camping

and need advice

silly me!!

hi hellen

if your thinking of using a bucket instead of a toilet then i would just use something like zofora (dont know if its spelt that way) but hopefully you know what i mean rather than spend money on proper toilet chemicals.

good luck with the camping

Hi Hellen just a dash of disinfectant is fine, zoflora as already mentioned has a nice smell but any will do the job.

Hope you enjoy your camping !

Helen,

No need for chemicals at all for over night use - tends to be just for wee at that time, use the site facilities for the other!. Just empty the bucket each morning and then there's no nasty chemicals adding to the already poluted systems.

Hi Helen. I'd like to apologise for redtut's rudeness, for which there was no call.

I use Zoflora concentrated disinfectant in my bucket when I'm tenting, a little splash is all you need and it's a small bottle so takes up hardly any room when packing. Can get in in Wilkinson's and most supermarkets. Bucket is for emergency nighttime/early morning No1s only and I empty it & rinse it each day.

I use the proper toilet chemicals in the cassette loo in my caravan as it does often get used for No 2s when the site has limited facilities and I only empty it when it's full or we pack up to leave, whichever comes first.

Hope this explains the difference.

I would suggest, as many times as any new inexperienced campers ask. If you've nothing constructive to say, why enter into the discussion?

I think it would be quite difficult for little ones to sit on a bucket.

We used to have a proper porta-potti when ours were small as we used it in the caravan as well. It finally bit the dust last year when my son emptied it and lost the lid down the CD point. It was so old that Thetford couldn't supply a replacement lid. As we now have a proper cassette one in the caravan and the kids are teenagers I decided we'd make do with a BWL when tenting.